'Philosophy of Science and Epistemology' conference will be held @HKUST on 27 - 29 June. We welcome 24 speakers from 12 countries, including Ken Aizawa, Alexander Bird, Sharon Crasnow, Jon Williamson, and Timothy Williamson!

Day 3: Philosophy of Science and Epistemology HKUST. Stimulating talks by Sharon Carsnow, Elena Popa, Maciej Jarzębski, Bixin Guo, and Handi Lin!

New blog 📝 Jon Williamson Joe Jones, Alexandra Trofimov and Michael Wilde introduce Evidence-Based Policy + (EBP+), a methodology for integrating and evaluating very different kinds of evidence 👇 upen.ac.uk/resources/how-…

A very interesting workshop on reasoning under uncertainty, organised by Niki Pfeifer and Hans Rott: uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-ku…

Very much enjoying *The plurality of evidence and causality in economics* organised by @MaziarzMariusz in Krakow. Next up: Federica Russo

100 more spaces available for our online webinar on Evidential Pluralism at the Evaluation Society UK Evaluation Society. Register for free at evaluation.org.uk/event/webinar-…

An exciting workshop tomorrow: 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, organised by Corrado Matta and Rosa Runhardt. lnu.se/en/meet-linnae…

The paperback of 'Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences', co-authored by Yafeng Shan and Jon Williamson, was out by Routledge. routledge.com/Evidential-Plu…

A new paper from my colleague Alexandra Trofimov on how to assess the impact of online fake news: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… . Part of a project on evidence-based law: jonwilliamson.uk/projects/eblpl…

The deadline for these two postdoc positions is approaching. One job for someone with expertise in evidence review and another for a philosopher of science:

How should we evaluate whether a law is effective? We can't conduct high quality RCTs, so orthodox evidence-based evaluation methods fail. My colleague Alexandra Trofimov and I argue for an approach based on Evidential Pluralism. Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Kent Staley on the updated 2nd edition of this excellent introduction to #philosophyofscience, which adds to its coverage discussions of topics including scientific rationality, the role of models in science, and social constructionism